arms
arms - noun
- A human upper limb; especially : the part between the shoulder and the wrist
- The forelimb of a vertebrate
- A limb of an invertebrate animal
- A branch or lateral shoot of a plant
Usage examples
Examples: "I can see the arms from here." "That arms belongs to me." "The arms is very important."
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Etymology
Middle English, going back to Old English {it}earm, arm,{/it} going back to Germanic{it} *arma-,{/it} masculine, (whence also Old Frisian {it}erm{/it} "arm," Old Saxon {it}arm,{/it} Old High German {it}aram, arm,{/it} Old Norse {it}armr,{/it} Gothic {it}arms{/it}), going back to Indo-European {it}*h{inf}2{/inf}orH-mo-,{/it} whence also Old Church Slavic {it}ramo{/it} {ldquo}shoulder,{rdquo} Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian {it}rȁme,{/it} stem {it}rȁmen-,{/it} Czech {it}ráměk{/it}; a parallel zero-grade {it}*h{inf}2{/inf}r̥H-mó-{/it} gives Old Prussian {it}irmo{/it} {ldquo}arm,{rdquo} Lithuanian (eastern dialects) {it}ìrmėdė{/it} {ldquo}pain from gout, chill, fever{rdquo} ({it}irm-{/it} {ldquo}arm{rdquo} + {it}-ėdė{/it} {ldquo}eating{rdquo}), Sanskrit {it}īrmá-{/it} {ldquo}arm,{rdquo} Avestan {it}arəma-{/it}; Latin {it}armus{/it} {ldquo}forequarter (of an animal), shoulder{rdquo} probably goes back to {it}*h{inf}2{/inf}erH-mo-{/it}
Middle English, going back to Old English earm, arm, going back to Germanic *arma-, masculine, (whence also Old Frisian erm "arm," Old Saxon arm, Old High German aram, arm, Old Norse armr, Gothic arms), going back to Indo-European {it}*h{inf}2{/inf}orH-mo-,{/it} whence also Old Church Slavic ramo "shoulder," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian rȁme, stem rȁmen-, Czech ráměk; a parallel zero-grade {it}*h{inf}2{/inf}r̥H-mó-{/it} gives Old Prussian irmo "arm," Lithuanian (eastern dialects) ìrmėdė "pain from gout, chill, fever" (irm- "arm" + -ėdė "eating"), Sanskrit īrmá- "arm," Avestan arəma-; Latin armus "forequarter (of an animal), shoulder" probably goes back to {it}*h{inf}2{/inf}erH-mo-{/it}